pmalacha Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 itachi, if you happen to come across that issue again, please post here what size was your latest valid save game file... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mithrril Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 (edited) I'm having this issue too and I have no idea what's causing it. It started today out of nowhere. I can't save or quick save. I can't save with the Save Hotkey mod either (I've tried it without that installed as well). I did install a few mods this morning but I was able to play it just fine for two hours after that before it started CTD. My save files are all under 6,000kb so it can't be the size. The first thing I tried was to deactivate all of my mods. Having all mods deactivated let me save so I then reactivated everything but what I'd installed in the last day. I then reactivated them all one by one and got rid of one that I thought conflicted with a previous mod. That seemed to fix it and everything was fine. I played for an hour or so. When I came back this evening I loaded the game, did some stuff, and tried to save. Now it's doing the same thing again, CTD every time I save. I hadn't changed anything at all between last time I got it to work and now. ETA: Each time I make a failed save a file .tmp file is created with the proper name but a tiny size. So it's obviously doing something. Edited August 23, 2012 by mithrril Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmalacha Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 From what I've found out so far: mods add "clutter" to your save file. When you progress in the game, explore containers, pick up stuff, drop stuff etc etc etc, your save game gets bigger also. When it gets too big, the game is unable to cope with saving it, hence the crashes. When you uninstall mods, you get rid of the clutter from your saves. Then you make some progress, save getting cluttered and BANG! CTD! At least that is my understanding of the issue :) So far I was not able to find any resolution. I just wonder if you play with no mods at all - would this occur in the vanilla too??? I'm puting Skyrim away until this is fixed :/ You hear me, Bethesda?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itachi6666 Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 i played Skyrim without any mods when it first came out 11.11.11 and i had no such problem and my saved games was like 6 mb or so.now i started skyrim again 2 months ago because i discovered how cool the game is with the mods it totally changes it making it cooler than ever in my opinion skyrim is the game of the year only with the mods. anyway i did some progress in the game since the last time i commented here i only went from riverwood to whiterun and did some quests 10 quests more or less and my saved games are already over 8 mb (i think they are so big because of the HD graphics of the game installed by the moods i have) i didnt meet any problems so far since i uninstalled the companions mods and that babette_replacer mod that i had before(it really was a cool mod because the vanilla babette was tragic) when ill do more progress over the point than the last time when my game was crashing at save without crashing ill start to believe that the companion&replacers mods were the problem :) cu guys again soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmalacha Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Well, I don't use any companions mods or replacers and yet the issue persists... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itachi6666 Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 WTf it started to crash again!!! idk what to do anymore! I tryied everything but no success! my saved game is like 4mb size only now.so I don't know what can be the problem. I don't have internet connection all the time so I can't search the problem further :| I hope that any of u can find out wtf is happening and post a solution for this annoying problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itachi6666 Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 good news guys I managed to make it save again by removing the black tower dark sacrament mod and now is working great. I am playing for over an hour and no problem yet :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmalacha Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Again, I don't use that mod and was still having these problems. Nevertheless, I gave up. I treated myself to Dawnguard (yay!) and with it, I've upgraded to 1.7. Reinstalled a game, installed around 80 mods anew and started brand new game with fresh character. I'll play for some time and see what happens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itachi6666 Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 hey man palamacha I don't think that there's a specific mod creating this problem because even after I uninstalled that mod after some time in the game the problem with saving appear again so I uninstalled some other mods also and then I open the game again, and press save new game which it worked. and then exit game and reinstall the mods that I uninstalled before. then went back In the game with the same saved game that I had when it started to crash on save and it worked ;-) I was playing like 3 hours and no crash yet. and if it starts to crash again then I'll do the same again :-) this may be the solution for the problem even for you mate.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vasthrana Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 I had a weird problem sort of related to this... I used some optimizers on some armor packs and apparently the game didn't like it that much, everytime I saw an NPC or myself trying to wear this armor, the game would display the npc naked and eitehr freeze/crash or take a massive fps hit. When I try to save after seeing this npc naked, the game would completely lock up. Removing this armor pack or reverting back to the unoptimized bsa fixed this problem for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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